17 Oct 2019
A (typical?) story
of a young researcher
Incentive structures
in scholarly communication
novelty
positive results
(Nosek, Spies, and Motyl 2012)
Degrees of freedom
in the research process
- multitude of decisions to be made
Degrees of freedom
in the research process
- multitude of decisions to be made
Are football (soccer) referees more likely to give red cards to players with dark skin than to players with light skin?
- 29 research teams
- same data set
- same results?
(Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)
Degrees of freedom
in the research process
- multitude of decisions to be made
Are football (soccer) referees more likely to give red cards to players with dark skin than to players with light skin?
- 29 research teams
- same data set
- same results?
(Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)
Nobody’s perfect - cognitive biases
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Folien: 
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Vielen Dank
für die Aufmerksamkeit
Jürgen Schneider
juergen.schneider@uni-tuebingen.de
07071-29 76088
ORCID: 0000-0002-3772-4198
Pictures
All taken from title page | Finn Hackshaw on Unsplash
light bulbs | Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash
biases | John Manoogian III categories and descriptions: Buster Benson implementation: TilmannR, Cognitive bias codex en, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nosek, Brian A., Jeffrey R. Spies, and Matt Motyl. 2012. “Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth over Publishability.” Perspectives on Psychological Science : A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science 7 (6): 615–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612459058.
Silberzahn, Raphael, and Eric L. Uhlmann. 2015. “Crowdsourced Research: Many Hands Make Tight Work.” Nature 526 (7572): 189–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/526189a.